Labor's Love Lost: War Among the Unions

[...] as these questions were debated, how did the "generational cohort" that we ex-student radicals, antiwar activists, and civil rights campaigners represented come to grief in disputes over who would represent and extract dues from extremely low-paid and isolated workers? Much of Early's book is spent documenting in relentless detail (Early is a lawyer, among his other occupations) how Stern and SEIU stumbled in this field, despite a period of immense growth and success that made SEIU - recognizable in public demonstrations by its "purple ocean" of union shirts whose color aptly blended red with blue - the fastest growing and largest union in the country.